The university I work at extended its grad school application deadlines by a month so students no longer eligible to enter the states could apply to come up here, instead. I guess if there’s a silver lining to all this fuckery, it’s that Canada is soaking up all those smart people/sweet, sweet international tuition…

“fuckbunkers” is the name of my new punk band

Edited for poor reading comprehension. You know your geophys!

“Rich Cohen has the looks of Channing Tatum, Paul Rudd, and Ben Affleck combined. Not a combination achieved through the guidance of an aesthetic eye, however, but rather what you would expect from the mindless averaging of an online 'what will their baby look like?' quiz fed grainy, poorly-lit paparazzi rejects.”

John Hodgman, Time Traveler: Confirmed.

I don’t know. I think if I ever found myself in an enclosed space with both of them, I’d be too intellectually intimidated to do anything but fall to my knees comme ça:

Seriously, I’ve been watching too much House of Cards and I’m scared someone’s gonna Frank Underwood this national treasure.

My god, I have lived in the forest in a tent for a month, I have spent two and a half weeks on the tundra without bathing, I was a fucking anthropology PhD student, and my hair has never, ever looked that awful. What in the ever loving heck is going on with this man?

As a fellow pale old person, from what I gather, being “woke” means that one is aware of, speaks out against, and or does something about the racial, social, and economic injustices that form the foundation of our society.

Eternal woke of the spotless Bae

Makes me think of John Ralston Saul’s definition of “dictionary” as “opinions presented as truth in alphabetical order”.

Are you me? I went through the same thing (two infestations in two different buildings) over 5 years ago, and I still have bedbug dreams.

Socialized medicine is part of the solution. But even in Canada, there are disparities in TB infection rates that fall along racial boundaries. Access to decent care in remote communities is an issue, along with poverty, cramped and inadequate housing, and justified mistrust of entering the medical system.

I’m going to come off like a pretentious jerk, but here goes: I have a PhD in anthropology, I’ve published in academic journals, and I’ve peer-reviewed papers for publication. I have a fairly decent background in academic writing, and I’m intimately familiar with words like ‘anthropometry’,’ multi-variate’, and…

I don’t have a horse in this race, but I’m too pedantic not to point out: all of those spellings and idioms are consistent with Canadian English (which tends to be a blend of British and American). Canadian actors often move to the US for work.

Each of the 25¢ words in that sentence, taken individually, are not above the reading level expected from an academic audience. My issue is that the author uses so many of those words in such high density to say absolutely nothing substantial about his research. A decent paper title could convey more information than…

It isn’t meaningless in that it contains words that have meanings, but we generally strive for higher standards in academic publishing.

I’m going to come down on the OPs side. The sentence quoted is meaningless and comes across as the sort of jargony filler an author defaults to when they’re not really confident about their work or writing.

I’ve just started sitting on people’s bags, and then saying “Oh, I’m sorry, is that your bag?” when I hear their lunch tupperware break. The look on people’s faces as they snatch their bag away from my marauding ass makes my god damned day.

Moving up to Red Bull.